Four years after 9/11, New York City still scrambles for resources to prevent and counter terrorism. But a Texas mushroom festival is safe and sound.Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY) (left) is fed up with the current way that homeland security dollars are distributed. Much of the money goes for pork barrel projects in places that terrorists have never heard of.
He points to $30,000 Madisonville, Texas -- population 4,200 -- got for a trailer. It's used to treat heat exhaustion for people attending their annual mushroom festival.
Rep Weiner has a list of other questionable expenses here on the homefront of the War on Terror:
- Washington, DC: Dale Carnegie public speaking training for sanitation workers: $100,000
- Computerized car towing service: $300,000
- Converse, Texas: A trailer to transport lawnmowers to lawnmower drag races: $3,000
- South Dakota: Paging system for the state agricultural fair: $29,995
- Montgomery County, Maryland.: Eight large-screen plasma televisions: $160,000
- Tiptonville, Tennessee: Purchases including a Gator all-terrain vehicle and two defibrillators, one for use at high school basketball games: $183,000
- Santa Clara County, California: Four Segway scooters to transport bomb squad personnel: $18,000
- Mason County, Washington: Biochemical decontamination units that have been sitting in a warehouse for more than a year with no one trained to use them: $63,000
- Prince Georges County, Maryland.: Digital camera system used for mug shots: $500,000
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